ABOUT
DAVID
HELLERSTEINA fifth-generation doctor, David
Hellerstein's writing has focused on medicine and literature...on the experiences
of becoming a doctor, on the ways in which medicine has changed
over the past 100 years, on the interactions between humanity and technology
that occur in the hospital and the clinic.

His published books include:
Battles of Life and Death,
(essays),
Loving
Touches (novel), and
A Family of Doctors
(memoir). He has won awards including the Pushcart Prize Best Essay Award,
the David McCord Essay Prize, and several MacDowell Colony Fellowships.
He is also a psychiatrist, chief of the outpatient psychiatry division
at Beth Israel Medical Center. In addition to running a large clinic, he
does research on the treatment of mood disorders, including chronic
depression.

PUBLICATIONS
Essays, short stories, journalism, fiction...and scientific research. His
writings have appeared in North American Review, NY Times Magazine, Harper's,
Esquire, Vogue, and American Journal of Psychiatry, Archives of General
Psychiatry, and other professional journals.